After being implemented for half a year, the project ‘Developing Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) into a smart city in the 2017-2020 period, with a vision towards 2025’ has enjoyed major successes. These will obviously help to form a clear foundation for the achievement of the four main targets, being a shared data center and an open ecosystem, a smart operating center, a simulation and strategic forecast center, and an information security center.
In the middle of 2017, Ho Chi Minh City authorities opened an electronic library website https://thuviensachhochiminh.tphcm.gov.vn/trang-chu with the name “Studying and following Uncle Ho’s ideology and morality”
With an $800,000 grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development, Phase II of the Vietnam Red Cross’s project launched by U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel J. Kritenbrink yesterday is expected to benefit 13,700 people directly and 30,000 people indirectly in three provinces of the Mekong delta province of Bac Lieu, the northern province of Hoa Binh, and the central province of Quang Tri.
